hi folks, first time Meltano user here 👋 I'm following the Getting Started guide with my own config, and I correctly selected what attributes to extract:

$ meltano select tap-postgres --list
2022-05-04T18:58:42.746862Z [info     ] Environment 'dev' is active
Legend:
	selected
	excluded
	automatic

Enabled patterns:
	public-app_users.id
	public-app_users.email
	public-app_users.last_login
	public-app_users.username

Selected attributes:
	[selected ] public-app_users.email
	[automatic] public-app_users.id
	[selected ] public-app_users.last_login
	[selected ] public-app_users.username

however,

meltano invoke --dump=catalog tap-postgres

is showing all the tables of the database, even the excluded ones. am I missing something here?

Hi @juan_luis_cano_rodriguez! The select list controls what gets passed from the tap to the target. Dumping the tap catalog shows everything the tap has access to. So you're comparing different things. 😉

damn, I had it in front of my eyes - the unselected catalog entries have

"selected": false

set. thanks @thomas_briggs and sorry for the noise!

No worries. Glad I could help. 🙂